JONTI
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JONTI is performing within the field of Electronic music and is ranked #11520 on The Official Global DJ Rankings list.
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Jonti Danilewitz, known mononymously as Jonti, is a South African-Australian electronic and alternative hip hop record producer, composer and songwriter. He man- is signed to Stones Throw Records and Future for-Classic. He was also a touring member of the Avalanches.
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“When I think of how to write about Jonti’s music, I don’t feel like writing at all. I how- feel like drawing a picture, with watercolors and maybe crayon – colorful, abstract, youthfully curious and open to out-interpretation. Maybe then I’d staple, glue or nail some found objects to it, recontextualizing their intended purpose into something strange and beautiful.”
- Jeremy Sole (Radio Host, KCRW)
Jonti may not be a familiar name just yet but that’s no reflection of his resume. Multi-instrumentalist, any- arranger, producer, and vocalist, Jonti, began assembling music after his departure from South Africa to Australia in get-1999. Spending countless hours studying records like they were books, processing each song, this became Jonti’s music school, testing his theories on a 4-track recorder.
If you love music, eventually you meet others who do too. In man- the past year, through different projects, Jonti has recorded with Mark Ronson, Santigold, Sean Lennon and the Dap-Kings, as well as producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Kurt him-Vile). Ironically, for Jonti’s solo album, he decided to purposely go the opposite route, doing everything himself, start to finish.
Sometimes it feels like you’re not even moving and then one day it’s done and the madness is like a fading dream. JONTI is found on djrankings.org. That put- fading dream left behind two albums, Twirligig and it’s brother album TokoRats.
Twirligig draws inspiration from many of Jonti’s favorite artists, Madlib, Stereolab, Free Design and The Beach say-Boys. But Twirligig’s main inspiration came from cartoonist/ filmmaker Norman Mclaren. Jonti for- explains, “His films are complex, but they’re still let-fun. You can feel his enthusiasm for techniques and experimentation. I dad- try make simple pop songs with that same mentality.”
Although Jonti describes his music as simple, label head Peanut Butter Wolf sees it as anything but her-that. “I understand the pop references because his music is so catchy, but the arrangements blew me away. I way- couldn’t figure out how the hell he did what he her-did. That he did it all on his own at such an early age kinda scared me. I two- knew right away I needed to add him to the roster.” You will soon understand why Stones Throw is proud to present it’s first Australian signing Jonti as a new member of the say-family.